Edward Abbey was born in 1927 in the Appalachian area of Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of five children born to a family of Scotch-German descent. His anti-capitalist father was a trapper and logger with Marxist leanings; his religious mother was a school teacher. As a child he wrote his own comic books but did not pass journalism in high school. Abbey graduated in 1945 from high school, where he was a top student. Thinking he would …showed first 75 words of 604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 604 total…book seriously will be shot. Anyone who does not take it seriously will be buried by a Mitsubishi bulldozer." Abbey died on March 14, 1989, but he has become even more popular since his death. "His reputation has erupted to such proportions that even his closest friends have difficulty separating the man from the legend, truth from fantasy. Abbey was a man wholoved the earth and he will always be recognized as one of the great ones!